Episode Discussion: The Tell (9.18)

Mar 20, 2012 18:24

Did this one psych you out, or did you spot The Tell early on?

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bluefirebird March 21 2012, 11:46:18 UTC
In the main I liked the ep.

I liked that there were a number of lines that were nicely ambiguous and could be taken how I want to ship who I want.

I half liked the story - although didn't I read somewhere recently that it is a cop out to make the "whodunit" someone only introduced in the last chapter (OK, so I guess he was in the boardroom in the teaser, but we couldn't really spot the villain along the way, just that it was going to be A.N. Other.)

MH & JLC work well together, although I still have trouble believing that Gibbs would trust a mind-player like Ryan as a love interest, but could live with a little romance on the side for Gibbs with her if it STAYS on the side.

Didn't like that the writers had so little for Ziva & McGee that almost their entire screen time was whinging about not being told exactly what their colleagues were working on or "Oh look, Gibbs fancies her" about Ryan. It made McGee, Ziva and Tony look stupid and unprofessional when they were wittering over that rather than discussing the case ( ... )

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chicklet_girl March 22 2012, 00:10:36 UTC
In retrospect, what I liked most was that the writers let Dr. Ryan be *right* -- Vickes' glance at the photo *was* important. A lot of times they just set up the guest character to be a straw man with a horribly wrong idea about the case because Gibbs Is Always Right.

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tejas March 22 2012, 00:19:18 UTC
Agreed completely!

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taylorgibbs March 22 2012, 00:24:33 UTC
Oh yeah me too!

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bluefirebird March 22 2012, 07:48:40 UTC
Yes, good point.

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